February Miscellany

From Twitter

A few more pics from our trip to Selby. The daisy-wheels (and other marks) are on a column in the north aisle at the West end, the Marian marks are on a medieval effigy right up against the West end. pic.twitter.com/gEaJty6CY1

— Brian Hoggard (@folkmagicman) February 3, 2023

In contrast to the enclosed equal-armed relief cross of the prior namestone example, other namestones bear sunken central relief roundels. Here's one such example. It was found in 1915 in clearing out the N transept of the priory church, though not in situ. https://t.co/nXXvtPT2A2 pic.twitter.com/JzHY35CEnO

— The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS) (@AS_Corpus) February 6, 2023

My favourite door? This in Hamble-le-Rice, medieval fishermen would make a line in the door before they went to sea. If they returned, that line became a cross…. Progressing to a W for future journeys pic.twitter.com/xo2n9ywKdi

— damnatio memoriae (@InFineMorimur) February 13, 2023

Visited Salford Priors Church in Warks earlier today. Romanesque details around the main door including a row of little daisy-wheels. There is an octagonal turret here with some fine grotesques. Inside there is a collection of very large intersecting and concentric circles. pic.twitter.com/cb4umyBFFx

— Brian Hoggard (@folkmagicman) February 19, 2023

Been to survey the parlour wing of a timber-framed hall house for a really welcoming and enthusiastic family down in West Sussex. The fireplace lintel incorporated a great collection of burn marks plus an "M" graffito that appeared to have been cut with a carpenter's rase knife. pic.twitter.com/pjYVeQKu6d

— James Wright (@jpwarchaeology) February 16, 2023

A wonderfully graffitied lead font bowl at St Eustice, Ebberton, Dorset. Lots of VV Marian marks. #churchgoing pic.twitter.com/TVuaKlgCJ5

— Andrew Ziminski FSA ???????? (@natchjourneyman) February 22, 2023

Moreton Corbet Castle. I'm sure there was a lot of graffiti around the site, but the failing / shifting light made examples almost impossible to spot! Stepping through this one doorway, however, the left-hand side of the frame / surround was just hitting the perfect angle to show pic.twitter.com/Url6fTTEh3

— Nicholas – West Midlands Ghost Club – Est. 1989 (@Enderfay) February 23, 2023

Just popped in to Bredon Church (Worcs) to look at the shoe outlines on the stone benches in the porch …and discovered two more! There was quite a bit of foliage placed on the benches last time I visited so they weren't visible previously. pic.twitter.com/kr7vdD4Mpy

— Brian Hoggard (@folkmagicman) February 26, 2023

Grappling with graffiti – the writings on the wall of St Helen’s Stickford. Lights, action, camera…Let the recording begin. pic.twitter.com/sZXSd1hTz0

— Spirit of Sutterby (@SpiritoSutterby) February 26, 2023

One of the earliest depictions of an American flag can be found in Edinburgh Castle. An American POW, imprisoned in @edinburghcastle during the American War of Independence, carved a ship with an American flag on his prison door. #AmericanHistory #ScottishHistory #History pic.twitter.com/mQXArHgw2W

— Cameron Maclean (@CMaclean96) February 25, 2023